This web browser is not supported. Use Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox for best results.
Walt Clark
New York Times, Tuesday, November 4, 1958
43-Across : Sociologists who wrote "Middletown."
Author:
Walt Clark
Editor:
Margaret Farrar
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 4.85, Missing: { J }, Scrabble score: 285 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 73, Cheaters: 0, FITB: 5, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 9
Walt Clark has 16 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
1 L | 2 O | 3 T | 4 U | 5 S | 6 P | 7 L | 8 E | 9 A | 10 C | 11 H | 12 E | 13 F |
||
14 A | M | O | R | E | 15 R | E | A | R | 16 H | A | L | O |
||
17 T | O | W | N | C | 18 R | I | E | R | S | 19 E | R | I | N |
|
20 H | O | S | 21 R | E | V | 22 S | O | 23 B | E | R | E | D |
||
24 T | E | X | A | 25 S | 26 N | E | R | I | ||||||
27 P | 28 U | 29 T | I | T | 30 T | U | 31 T | 32 E | L | S | 33 A | 34 S |
||
35 I | D | E | M | 36 B | E | S | E | 37 T | 38 E | B | R | O |
||
39 N | I | N | E | 40 B | E | A | N | O | 41 A | U | R | A |
||
42 E | N | N | S | 43 L | Y | N | D | S | 44 D | R | O | P |
||
45 S | E | I | S | 46 M | 47 E | N | E | 48 L | E | G | E | S |
||
49 S | Q | I | 50 N | 51 A | R | 52 M | O | R | ||||||
53 B | 54 A | S | U | T | O | 55 S | 56 L | E | U | 57 B | 58 O | 59 Z |
||
60 A | R | T | A | 61 M | O | 62 T | O | R | D | 63 R | O | M | E |
|
64 S | C | A | R | 65 A | L | A | I | 66 E | E | R | I | E |
||
67 K | O | R | E | 68 D | O | W | N | 69 R | A | N | T | S |
© 1958, The New York TimesNo. 3,416
Across
1
Egypt's floral emblem. : LOTUS
6
Legal appeal. : PLEA
10
Cook. : CHEF
14
Love: Ital. : AMORE
15
Construct. : REAR
16
Disk of light. : HALO
17
Original newscasters. : TOWNCRIERS
19
Name for a colleen. : ERIN
20
Cries of surprise. : HOS
21
Income: Abbr. : REV
22
Became serious. : SOBERED
24
Rangers' habitat. : TEXAS
26
St. Philip ___. : NERI
27
___ there (shake hands): Slang. : PUTIT
30
Mild rebuke. : TUT
32
"___ Dream," from "Lohengrin." : ELSAS
35
The same: Lat. : IDEM
36
Harass. : BESET
38
River in Spain. : EBRO
39
The Muses. : NINE
40
Variety of keno. : BEANO
41
Scent of flowers. : AURA
42
River in central Austria. : ENNS
43
Sociologists who wrote "Middletown." : LYNDS
44
Type of kick. : DROP
45
Earthquake. : SEISM
47
Chemical suffix. : ENE
48
Laws: Lat. : LEGES
49
Small measurement: Abbr. : SQIN
51
Coat of mail. : ARMOR
53
Natives of South Africa. : BASUTOS
56
100 bani. : LEU
57
Dickens' pseudonym. : BOZ
60
Gulf of Greece. : ARTA
61
Type of race track. : MOTORDROME
64
Blemish. : SCAR
65
Jai ___. : ALAI
66
Unearthly. : EERIE
67
A name for Persephone. : KORE
68
Football term. : DOWN
69
Talks loudly. : RANTS
Down
1
Lattice piece. : LATH
2
1847 romance of Tahiti. : OMOO
3
Pulls. : TOWS
4
Coffeepot. : URN
5
Panel show theme. : SECRET
6
Mike Hammer, for one. : PRIVATEEYE
7
Sheltered place. : LEE
8
What pitchers have. : EARS
9
Malicious burning. : ARSON
10
Cynosure at bowl games. : CHEERLEADER
11
Capital on the Susquehanna. : HARRISBURG
12
French man's name. : ELIE
13
Loving. : FOND
18
King: Lat. : REX
23
Insect. : BEE
24
Scene of New Year's Eve revelry. : TIMESSQUARE
25
Heroine of the Apocrypha. : SUSANNA
27
Isle of ___, West Indies. : PINES
28
Commune in Italy. : UDINE
29
Ashley Cooper, for example. : TENNISSTAR
31
Filet mignon. : TENDERLOIN
33
Island group of Indonesia. : ARROE
34
Cleansers. : SOAPS
36
Barrel: Abbr. : BBL
37
Prepositions. : TOS
46
With: Ger. : MIT
48
More vociferous. : LOUDER
50
Wanderer. : NOMAD
52
Sea: Fr. : MER
53
Take the sun. : BASK
54
Idaho town near Pocatello. : ARCO
55
Card game with no partners. : SOLO
57
By nature. : BORN
58
Fail to perform. : OMIT
59
Final letters. : ZEES
62
Marble. : TAW
63
Turmeric. : REA
Answer summary:
4 unique to this puzzle, 5 debuted here and reused later, 3 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.
Found bugs or have suggestions? Please let us know.
Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.